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来 kanji
come, due, next, cause, become
- JLPT level
- N5 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N5 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 7
- School grade
- Grade 2 (elementary school)
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ライタイ
Kun readings
くるきたるきたすきたすきたるきこ
Variant forms
來Words with 来
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —性来by nature; naturally; by birth; innately; congenitally
- —高来your visit; your presence
- —来翰correspondence; received letter
- —来処coming to an office, laboratory, etc.
- —来来週week after next
- —ご来光sunrise viewed from the top of a high mountain; the rising sun
- —又来週see you next week
- —先程来since a little while ago
- —また家来secondary retainer
- —未来志向future oriented
- —由来書きhistory (of something); memoir
- —千客萬来flood of customers; roaring business
- —古事来歴origin and history; particulars
- —一陽来腹return of spring; long-awaited, favorable turn of fortune (favourable)
- —巻土重来recouping one's strength for a renewed attack; making another attempt with redoubled efforts
- —阿閦如来Akshobhya (one of the Five Wisdom Buddhas)
- —けん土重来recouping one's strength for a renewed attack; making another attempt with redoubled efforts
- —従来どおりas before; as usual; the way it used to be
- —そのとき以来since that time; since then; from that point (on)
- —来年の事を言うと鬼が笑うnobody knows the morrow; speak of next year and the ogres laugh